Pianoforte

Baptiste Trotignon (piano, Fender Rhodes), Eric Legnini (piano, Fender Rhodes), Bojan Z (piano, Fender Rhodes), Pierre de Bethmann (piano, Fender Rhodes)

PianoForte is 2 pianos, 2 Fender Rhodes and 4 sets of hands. An unprecedented linking of forces in which four awesome musicians at the height of their powers, each of them a Victoire du Jazz winner, team up to engage in the most creative, elegant and powerful musical dialogue. It also is a story of friendship in which each of them, through their own style, come together to show us how four musicians share their passions and enjoy the pleasure of playing together.

PianoForte was born live, its first concert being at the Tourcoing Jazz Festival in 2019. Since then, they have performed at many major festivals, such as Jazz in Marciac, Jazz à La Villette, The Monte Carlo Jazz Festival and The Jarasum International Jazz Festival, in South Korea. In October 2024, with a view to capturing and sharing what they do on stage, they recorded and subsequently released their first and only record to date: Pianoforte (2024).

Technical mastery, excellence and complicity for the creation of music that blends Jazz standards, varied versions and compositions of their own: with strains that flow freely between blues, tango, bossa nova, classical, and, of course, Jazz. On stage, Pianoforte’s concerts are musical tussles, in which the songs performed, backing vocals and rhythms all come to life; tussles in which everything vibrates, moves and dazzles, but in which every separate piece manages to assert a place for itself, within a tableau of great beauty.